Kirril Shields works for the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, where here manages a number of projects in the region that work to curb atrocity and human rights abuse. He works as an Expert Consultant for the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and R2P and has worked for the World Bank and World Health Organisation in the past while living in Mongolia. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Genocide Studies and Prevention and he writes on topics that include foreign affairs and regional politics. Working with organisations in the South-east Asia region, he leads the Centre's training on the prevention of hate speech and disinformation, and he lectures at UQ on topics such as the history of genocide, world affairs and politics, and humanitarianism.